Japanese PC maker DosPara is no stranger to pushing the limits of netbooks and ultraportable laptops. The company was one of the first to put out a notebook with a dual core Atom 330 CPU and NVIDIA ION graphics, for example. But DosPara’s latest notebook ups the game with the addition of a Blu-Ray drive. The Dospara limited edition “Yu-pon”…

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One of the defining characteristics of a netbook is that they’re low power devices that generally don’t offer the kind of graphics and processing performance you’d find in higher priced computers. But not all netbook and nettop parts are created equal. And DosPara has crammed pretty much all of the most powerful netbook/nettop class components you can find into a…

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Japan’s Dospara is offering a limited edition netbook called the Prime Note Cartina UM, which seems to have all the standard specs you’d expect in a 39,980 yen ($415US) netbook: CPU: 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU Display: 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixels Storage: 120GB HDD RAM: 1GB Operating System: Linux, with Windows XP driver disk Webcam: 1.3MP Connectivity/Expansion: 3-in-1 card…

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